Scrooge Strategy

Let’s mock Ramit

13 comments — written on February 17th, 2006

Lots of people have bookmarked IWillTeachYouToBeRich on del.icio.us, the social-bookmarking site (What’s del.icio.us?). While there are lots of nice comments (”Great blog for personal finance and investing,” etc), there are some smartasses on del.icio.us. Check out their descriptions HAHA:

“some asshole Stanford graduate writing about how he’s better with money than you are”

“To-the-point budget advice from a cocky Stanford kid.”

Aww yeah. Make your own description: Add IWillTeachYouToBeRich to del.icio.us

Update: The descriptions have started rolling in. My favorite: “I was going to leave a comment, but it was too much of a barrier.”

13 comments

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  1. 1
    February 17, 2006

    Jonathan

    Here’s what I said:

    “The ever sexay Ramit laying the smack down on business and economics. w00t!”

  2. 2
    February 17, 2006

    Flexo

    Any PR is good PR, right?

  3. 3
    February 17, 2006

    Mike

    Is this del.icio.us stuff really all it’s cracked up to be? I haven’t used it, but it doesn’t sound that appealing to me.

  4. 4
    February 17, 2006

    Ramit Sethi

    It’s addictive when you start to use it. Imagine being able to save random pages you browse for future reference. You can assign multiple tags (finance, interesting, etc) and browse your own stuff later! Well, it’s addictive to me.

  5. 5
    February 17, 2006

    Make Love, Not Debt

    It take a little while to get your head wrapped around the idea that bookmarks could be so cool and useful. Try it for a month and you’ll see how useful it is.

  6. 6
    February 17, 2006

    nichole

    Aw, rocketman and syntheticpubes are just jealous. My favorite comment was “The world is not Darwinian.”

  7. 7
    February 17, 2006

    Rick

    “There are plenty of money advice sites out there, the sad truth is that all the others huff mad dongs. Read this site!”

  8. 8
    February 17, 2006

    Ramit Sethi

    Nichole: That’s the name of an article I wrote!

  9. 9
    February 17, 2006

    nichole

    D’oh. See how your genius shines through. :)

  10. 10
    February 17, 2006

    Dave

    You do sometimes come across as a cocky asshole. In fact, you probably are a cocky asshole. But hell, cocky assholes are doing everything cool these days. People just don’t like to be hearing “Not only am I doing really cool intelligent stuff, but you can too, but you’re not.”

  11. 11
    February 18, 2006

    KMulligan

    Wouldn’t it be more cocky/asshole-ish for you to simply brag about how you handle money, rather than going piece by piece, article by article trying to explain to your fellow young adults on how to manage it themselves?

    “Haha! I’ve got money strategically saved and invested, and you don’t. I’m not tellin’ how I did it, either!”

  12. 12
    February 20, 2006

    Kirubakaran

    another explanation could be that being a contrarian pays. if ones wants to be noticed – especially by the person the comment is about – one has to say the opposite of what the crowd says.

    hence, with few people trashing you, you must be heading in the right direction.

  13. 13
    February 22, 2006

    Mike Grossman

    “Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.” – I think that sums up those comments

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